LABEL: Fire Records

CAT NO: FIRELP625

BARCODE: 809236162519

Tracklisting:

Dont Ask Dont Tell Disc 1

A1 Finish Line
A2 Mercury Falls
A3 Yr Reign
A4 Poison
A5 Lets Get Lost

B1 String
B2 German Song
B3 In/Out
B4 Wrong Side
B5 Arrive

Wrong Sides Disc 2
A1 Car
A2 Last Mistake
A3 Submerge
A4 Loin of the Surf
A5 SVK

B1 German Song (Demo)
B2 Adult Books
B3 Who Jumped in My Grave
B4 Angelhead
B5 Cimarron

COME Dont Ask Dont Tell
[Remastered & Expanded Edition]

2LP Black Vinyl
(Includes new artwork with unearthed photos and fresh liner notes by the band. Includes download code.)

In 1994 Come responded to the difficult-second-album stereotype with the hypnotic, intense and emotional masterpiece Dont Ask Dont Tell. Featuring the original line-up of Thalia Zedek, Chris Brokaw, Sean O Brien and Arthur Johnson, the Boston band broadened their sound by slowing down the tempos and creating a dense urban stream of consciousness that mixes noise, city blues and catharsis. The album hits you immediately as one of the greatest dissident records ever made.

Lovingly remastered, this expanded edition includes Wrong Sides, an additional albums worth of b-sides and unreleased tracks, including the bands very first single Car and their last recorded song, Cimarron, featuring this core line-up. These gems showcase the rawness and incredible growth of a band completely in command of their songwriting and at the same time paying homage to some of their punk roots with beautiful renditions of Swell Maps Loin Of The Surf and Xs Adult Books. Also Includes new artwork with unearthed photos and fresh liner notes by the band.

Dissident from traditional rock this is a band playing music that thematically and structurally seems to pull from old Europa, from Eastern folk and modernist classical music as much as US and UK rock. Dissident from traditional ideas about singing and songwriting Thalias (ex of Live Skull) presence on songs like Yr Reign and the astonishing closer Arrive isnt the pushy self-aggrandizement of a lead singer but the internal voice of the eternal migrant, someone who knows about survival, hiding, how living between multiple worlds can become its own refuge of distance, its own sanctuary of unbelonging

Dont Ask Dont Tell emerged from a period of cohesion, a break from the tight and hectic touring schedule Come had been plunged into after the acclaim accorded 11:11, and you can hear that increased focus in every moment the layers of guitars and feedback are even more precise, the structuring of songs takes on a new openness and ambition, and the whole narrative arc of the record from Finish Line to Arrive is more exquisitely realised and sequenced.

See below for tracklisting